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Jose is Spanish for Yosef and could be registered on some Jews’ papers in Latin America.
A Chabad shaliach in EY whose name is Natan/Nosson, is registered as Natalio on his Argentinian birth certificate (I think he is a BT). Another Natalio I know was born in Tangier and known to me and everyone else as Naftali in daily life. Natalio = male version of Nathalie or Natalia = nitel. Neither one uses his Spanish name, though – one took Naftali legally when he became a US citizen and the other is Natan on his EY documents but never changed his Argentinian documents as it is not easy to do.
Passion – the difference is that among the Moroccans I knew, these French names are all they have unless they took Hebrew names.
My own name is no picnic to pronounce in Russian. If the person I am speaking to over the phone does not understand what I am saying even after I spell my name for them, and it is something informal like a dry cleaning pickup or a call to a repairman, I use the Russian version. It is such a giveaway that the person they are speaking to is Jewish that it hardly matters.